Marvel- The Letter "C":
Either this or “K” is the most useless letter of the alphabet - having both is totally redundant and confusing for outsiders. It hails from the same letter that "G" sprang from. In Latin, it was a hard "K" sound only, but it later got added to words that ACTUALLY had "K", creating things like "thick" or "sick", which is totally redundant as balls, and then made a lot of "S" noises. Of all the letters in English, it was perhaps the most changed from the ancient English to today.

It gets used a LOT for major Marvel guys, owing to 850 guys named "Captain"- Captains America, Britain, Germany, Kerosene, Marvel, Wonder, Ultra, Universe, Terror and more! There's also Colossus, Cyclops, Cable, Carnage, The Champion of the Universe, The Collector, Chthon, The Circus of Crime, Crossbones, Count Nefaria, and, most importantly, Charlie-27.

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-Caliber is a generic one-shot villain that held up the city of Vancouver, forcing Sasquatch & Aurora to fight him in the pages of Alpha Flight. He had the 'Squatch on the ropes, but Aurora showed some new light powers and blinded him, allowing the furry Alpha Flight member to KO him in one shot. He was broken out of prison two issues after his debut to threaten Vancouver AGAIN (I mean, I know the Canucks are an annoying team and their fanbase is even worse, but COME ON, dude), but Talisman made a public debut and teleported his armour away, leaving him in his underwear. One wonders why mages don't try that trick on IRON MAN more often, if it's that easy. He only appeared again in a minor cameo almost a hundred issues later, during a supervillain auction for the bodies of deceased Alphans Silver & Auric. This was his final appearance, all the way back in 1993.

-Fun Fact: Irrelevant to pretty much everyone, but Caliber was one of the earliest names taken from my original version of "The List", back before Spectrum added to it using various obscure characters. His name popped up on an online list, so I statted him up alongside a handful of somewhat-known characters I'd yet to stat, like Madelyne Pryor & Doctor Bong. Seeing him pop up with the "C" names made me look at my archives, and I noticed both that, and the fact that I neglected to post him during my "Alpha Flight" run.

-Powerful enough to hurt Sasquatch, but not hold up to protracted damage, Caliber is just another PL 8 Powersuit guy. I have no idea where his suit comes from, however. Is he a smart guy who built it, or just some loser who found it?

Complications:
Relationship (Mother)- Cammi attempts to get her mother into Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but often fails.
Relationship (Drax)- Cammi "adopts" Drax, and appears to be a bit attached to him, despite pretending like he's a pet.

-Cammi is such a weird little story in the Marvel Cosmic Scene, and emblematic of how much of a different touch Keith Giffen brought to the Annihilation mega-event that proved so popular. See, while Abnett & Lanning were the ones who claimed most of the success, and went on to write all of the later books more or less by themselves... Giffen was actually a HUGE PART of that event. And you can tell, because as soon as he was out of the picture, almost all of his contributions vanished from the narrative. I mean, the Silver Surfer, Firelord and the Evil Heralds were all major elements of the first story... and once Giffen was gone, so were they. Cammi herself is just such a situation- a big part of the Drax miniseries, and a continuing source of his protective instincts later on, but he booted her away from him by the end of the story (in order to protect her), and she utterly disappeared. Drax moved on to the Guardians the Galaxy, while Cammi vanished.

-Cammi was a regular "Smart-Assed Kid Character" with absentee parents, and "adopted" Drax the Destroyer when he and some other prisoners from a Prison Ship full of aliens crash-landed near her Alaska town. The Drax the Destroyer miniseries converted Drax from a Flying Stupid Hulk being into a more sinister, intelligent Kratos/Riddick knock-off, complete with dual-wielding weapons. While she "adopts" the stupid Drax, the smart one kind of takes her on as a partner, as a big part of his character was a fatherly, protective instinct (since his original basis was the father of young Heather "Moondragon" Douglas before he was killed by Thanos). Drax protects her a bit, but the two are separated when he refuses to bring her along for his dangerous lifestyle, and she's seen at story's end, walking around with Thanos's "Chaos Sprite" sidekick, about to get up to some mischief.

-Cammi then UTTERLY VANISHES for several years, with Abnett & Lanning never bringing her back. I don't think Drax even mentions her. It was so weird. Avengers Arena seriously comes out seven years after Annihilation did. So Dennis Hopeless apparently remembered her character, throwing her into the Arena book alongside a boatload of other forgotten Teen Character/Sacrifices, and X-23. Cammi is a bit of a "Normal POV" character in the series, training herself up to be a Badass Normal in order to survive. She ends up living to the end of the series, and shows up in the follow-up, Avengers Undercover. When the team "murders" Arcade, they are captured by Baron Zemo, who blackmails them into helping him defeat the Avengers- Cammi escapes and reveals that only a body double of Arcade's was killed. After this, she returns to outer space. She attempts to hunt down Drax as a mercenary, but he ends up giving her his ship, so that she can form a new heroic team.

-I never felt she was a bad character- unlike many "Annoying Kid" characters, she wasn't allowed to just browbeat everyone she encountered- she was MADE FUN OF for doing so, and treated like a petulant child. Little things like that make such characters a lot more tolerable, so their shitty attitude becomes part of the humor. Bossing around Drax like he was her pet was actually pretty funny, and made their real, actual emotional connection (which both of them resisted confessing to) all the better.

-Cammi is a natural survivor, though not a powerful adversary. Mostly, what she's good at is Not Dying, which given her Power Level and some of the insane situations she's involved herself in (like being in the middle of THE ANNIHILATION WAVE), is a damn fine ability.

haha, oh geez- there was a Stupid Comics based off of this nonsense and I missed it? DAMN.

The truly unfortunate thing is that the comic appears to be the WORST kind of bad- the boring, incompetently-written sort of bad that just makes a book dreary and uninteresting. It fails to fail at the most SPECTACULAR, Liefeldian "Car Crash" levels that make things so much more fun. Now THAT book would be a fun read.

-Created for a Daughters of the Dragon Limited Series that I had no idea existed, Ricadonna is your everyday would-be Crimeboss With Good Publicity, hiding behind a multimedia empire and dressing in stuff that would give Emma Frost pause. She is captured by Misty Knight after hunting down some Jobber Villains for robbing her (Freezer Burn and 8-Ball are killed), and reappears later to try and kill the heroes off again, this time with some newfound super-powers given by Super-Skrull implants. Humbug saves Misty, and Ricadonna escapes. She is later captured by Misty after a one-on-one fight, then targets Misty in her Heroes For Hire Limited Series, escaping once the team outnumbers her. By the end, alien implants haver her looking more alien than human.

-Ricadonna was one of the early "WTF?" names I noticed from "The List", which is why I statted her so early in the game. In fact, she appeared in the final month of the Atomic Think Tank- I posted her right around when I went to Disney World in 2014, and she was thus one of the final Marvel characters I ever put onto that site- after that, it was all Ronin Army.

-Ricadonna is a pretty-simple, but actually very pricey, Blaster with some good Skills and Shapeshifting. The latter of which adds a BIG chunk of points to her.

But yeah, to the surprise of no one, the animation junkie watched Skeleton Warriors back in the day. Was pretty fun from what I remember, unique premise while trying hard for a sort of "He-Man science and sorcery" feel.

But yeah, to the surprise of no one, the animation junkie watched Skeleton Warriors back in the day. Was pretty fun from what I remember, unique premise while trying hard for a sort of "He-Man science and sorcery" feel.

As far as I can remember the show lasted barely a single season and I pretty much missed it entirely because it was broadcast at a really shitty timeslot for me.

-The Crimson Mage is an ancient wizard who discovered a mystic orb that made him immortal and gave him great power. However, his orb was slowly weakening, and so the Mage decided to re-energize it using the powers of Ghost Rider. He split Zarathos from Johnny Blaze in order to do this, causing both halves to weaken- Blaze confronted him, and destroyed the Mage's orb in the process of their fight. With that, the Crimson Mage rapidly aged to his true state and died. Blaze, for his own survival, had to reunite with the demon inside of him.